# Application Security Engineer - Penetration Testing Quality Assurance

We are looking for an experienced Application Security Engineer to serve as the quality-assurance point for penetration testing deliverables across applications and APIs. In this individual-contributor role, you will independently review reports and findings before release, confirm that risk ratings and supporting evidence are sound, and help application teams move findings through remediation and closure. You will work closely with penetration testers, vulnerability management leads, and technology stakeholders to maintain consistent reporting standards, improve testing quality, and provide clear, risk-based guidance. Key Responsibilities: Perform final quality reviews of penetration test reports before release, ensuring findings are technically accurate, reproducible, supported by sufficient evidence, within the approved scope, and written for both technical and business audiences. Validate affected assets, exploitation paths, business impact, duplicate findings, and false positives; challenge conclusions when the evidence does not support the stated risk. Review and calibrate severity ratings using CVSS, exploitability, asset criticality, business impact, environmental context,

- **Id**: 1167533
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/manulife-application-security-engineer-penetration-testing-quality-assurance>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Manila, Philippines
- **Countries**: PH
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T04:21:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:31:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8861
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Penetration Testing, Information Security, Application Security, Vulnerability Management

## Company

- **Id**: 6650
- **Name**: Manulife
- **Domain**: manulife.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/manulife>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 124
- **Ghost share**: 0.032
- **Stale share**: 0.21
- **Repost share**: 0.185
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 14000
- **Max usd**: 35000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 854

## Technologies

- **Burp Suite** — Optional: no
- **CVSS** — Optional: no
- **CWE** — Optional: no
- **OWASP** — Optional: no
- **Snyk** — Optional: no
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Unix** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Philippines** — Iso: PH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T04:21:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.652
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:4, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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